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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

After Easter with Tim Tebow, Tozer, and...

The Giants win
the Super Bowl and everybody's talking about Tim Tebow going to the Jets.

It reminds me of
professional golf.

No matter who's
winning what, all we hear about is Tiger coming back, backsliding, coming back
again, sliding further back, coming back again and again and...

Getting back to
TT - you can read more about him in the archives of KD not to mention the gazillion
comments/commentaries/kudos/cynicisms at your fingertips by googling his name -
it's a win/win for everybody involved.

The Jets steal
the headlines.

The pressure is
off the Giants with everyone expecting even more of Ryan, et.al.

The Broncos bolt
to the top of Super Bowl prognostications with, arguably, the best
on-the-field-coach-quarterback in the history of the game.

Getting back to
the Gator who won't follow in the footsteps of Broadway Joe if you know what I mean, he
spoke to over 15K in Georgetown, Texas at an outdoor Easter Day worship service
(4/8).

Bringing Romans
1:16-17 to mind which often escapes the noodles of most mainliners these days, he
said it's important to be outspoken about faith, urged/admonished athletes to
be role models, and said he welcomed the attention of his witness for obvious
reasons if you know what
he/He means.

I couldn't help
thinking of a fundie classmate at seminary who urged/admonished me just before
I was ordained, "Talk about Jesus! That'll shock 'em!"

And I can't help
but lamenting that I needed to be told that or that TT is scolded by
posers in pulpits/pews for doing it so convincingly/compellingly/consistently/courageously.

Reminds me of
Moody responding to a critic: "I prefer the way I do it to the way
you don't do it."

@#$%

Now that the
posers have gone back into hibernation until 12/24/12, I gotta confess our Holy
Week on the corner of Lincoln and Main in Belvidere, Illinois was awesome.

Yes, awesome in the highest
spiritual sense of that word.

While the
bean-counters are excited about our Maundy Thursday service being packed for
the first time in years, He showed up in a big, big, big, awesome, awesome,
awesome way; bringing to mind what you can hear by dialing 815-544-3535.
It was almost Pentecostal
in an Acts kinda way.

Then came our two
services on Easter Day.

Again, awesome!

Of course, the
posers didn't get it/Him because they were, you know, just doing their
little-dab'll-do-ya religious thing.

But for those who
showed up with faith or wanting faith or renewing their relationship with Jesus
or inviting Him into their hearts for the first time, it was awesome.

A funny moment in
a horrific way after more thought.

I preached at the
first service and we had an awesome
cantata in the second one that aligned hearts with Him in an awesome way.

After the second
service, I greeted an unfamiliar fellah who complained, "I came to hear
you because ___ told me to come and hear you; and now that you didn't speak, I
guess I'll never hear you."

"Friend," I said, "you wouldn't have heard me if I spoke; 'cause
if you didn't hear Him in the music of the moment..."

Geez.

Combining both
services, teaching appointments, and so on, people can hear me over 130 times a
year.

When I told my
wife about it, she said, "You're right and wrong. He wouldn't have
heard you if you spoke. That's right. Of course, that's why he
doesn't hear and doesn't honor God regularly. He's not supposed to come
to worship to hear you or anybody else but to hear Him through you and others
called to..."

Whoa.

@#$%

That reminds me
of the very, very, very few folks who still don't get the genre of my latest
book.

Specifically,
very, very, very few folks don't get some of the language that I quote,
reference, and the like.

They remind me of
folks who think Jesus was using Emily Post's best as quoted in Matthew 5:21ff.
or the plethora of pret' near expletives directed at the Pharisees throughout
the NT.

Some folks don't
know Greek, care about Greek, or flunked it in seminary. I'm not saying
Greek is that important; but it ain't bad in curing posing Biblical
literacy/lifestyle/language if
you know what, uh, it means.

It goes back to
thesis 4 of Fifteen Secrets:
"Trying to be rational with the irrational is illogical; the
ancillary being, being wrong invalidates argument and being right does not
necessitate it."

Posers in
pulpits/pews who don't get TT,
uh, don't get TT and Who makes
him...

Posers on Easter
Day(s) and other "holy" days don't get
Him because they come to hear...

@#$%

Tozer: "The
true worth of a church member is revealed by his life on Monday rather than on
Sunday."

Jesus doesn't
want 10%. He expects 100% if
you know what He means.

Putting it
another way, the authenticity of someone's Christianity is exposed by the
priority of worship in their lives apart from Easter Day(s), Christmas Eve(s),
and...

Tozer: "Our
fruit will follow its native tree."

Jesus: "A
tree is known by its fruit."

Putting it
another way, the authenticity of someone's Christianity is exposed by
confession, conduct, and countenance consistent with Christ.

Tozer: "No
man has any moral right to go before the people who has not first been long
before the Lord."

Jesus:
"Tarry with Me."

Putting it
another...

Uh, there is no
other way.

Posers on Easter
Day(s) and the like don't get that/Him because they listen to the wrong voices.